CWA reveals shortlists for 2012 Crime Thriller Awards

Stuart MacBride, Jo Nesbo and Ann Cleeves are among the authors fighting it out for the Specsavers Bestseller Dagger, as the Crime Writers Association...

Stuart MacBride, Jo Nesbo and Ann Cleeves are among the authors fighting it out for the Specsavers Bestseller Dagger, as the Crime Writers Association reveals the shortlists for its 2012 Crime Thriller awards.

Kathy Reich and Anthony Horowitz complete the shortlist for that award, with Horowitz nominated for his Sherlock Holmes novel, House of Silk (Orion).

Peter James, CWA chair, said: "I am very proud that this year's Crime Thrillers Award shortlists show a truly broad range of high quality work, by great authors, in the most popular of all fiction genres."

The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 18th October at the Grosvenor House Hotel which will be televised on ITV3 on the 23rd October. Other awards include the CWA Gold Dagger for the Best Crime Novel of the Year, the CWA New Blood dagger for the Best New Crime Writer of the Year, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.